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Karen King is Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. An occasional consultant to the Ford Foundation on Religion and Human Rights, Dr. King has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, Harvard Divinity School, the Irvine Foundation, and Occidental College. She is the author of The Gospel of Mary of Magdala (2003), What Is Gnosticism? (2003), Revelation of the Unknowable God (1996), and scores of articles in scholarly publications.

• Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity, Harvard University, The Divinity School, 1998–
• Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Occidental College, 1984–1998